Review of Linux Compatibility

The TechniSat SkyStar HD USB is a satellite receiver and can is connected via USB to th PC. The DVB-S2 Receiver supports HDTV and is very space-saving with its physical dimentsion of 100mm x 100mm. The receiver is fully supported by Linux since Kernel version 2.6.39.

The receiver has the USB-ID 14f7:0500 and is recognized in the following way:

To access the receiver the firmware file dvb-usb-SkyStar_USB_HD_FW_v17_63.HEX.fw is needed, which can be downloaded at http://kernellabs.com/firmware/technisat-usb2, if the file is not already provided by the Linux distribution. The file has to be copied to /lib/firmware/.

The kernel uses the module dvb-usb-technisat-usb2 to control the HD satellite receiver. To load this module the following line has to be added to the file /etc/modules

dvb-usb-technisat-usb2

Afterwards, the receiver is recognized an initialized by the Kernel in the following way:

IR Remote Control

The integrated infraread receiver is also supported by Linux via LIRC. The program ir-keytable has to be installed to let Linux process the signals of the remote as keyboard events. This program can be installed in Debian-based distributions (e.g. Ubuntu) by the command:

sudo apt-get install ir-keytable

The configuration file matching to the remote has to be selected and copied to /etc/rc_keymaps

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